Microsoft confirmed thousands of Hotmail customers had their usernames and passwords posted recently on a third-party site as a result of a likely phishing attack. An investigation by Microsoft has determined that there was no breach of internal data on the company’s part.
– Officials at Microsoft confirmed that thousands users of Windows
Live Hotmail had their user credentials posted on a
third-party site.
According to Microsoft, the username and password information was likely
swiped in a phishing scheme, and the company is currently working with
customers who…